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1212010 Northern Hemisphere summer — The 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer included severe heat waves that impacted most of the United States, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, North Africa and the European continent as a whole, along with parts of Canada, Russia …
122Famine — This article is about scarcity of food. For other uses, see Famine (disambiguation). Child victim of the Holodomor. A famine is a widespread scarcity of food. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation …
123Dust Bowl — For other uses, see Dust Bowl (disambiguation). A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Photo: Arthur Rothstein. The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms ca …
124High Rock Lake — Infobox lake lake name = High Rock Lake image lake = Abbottscreek.jpg caption lake = Abbotts Creek section (Spring 2007) image bathymetry = caption bathymetry = location = North Carolina coords = coord|35|37|44|N|80|15|4|W|type:waterbody… …
125Ethiopia — /ee thee oh pee euh/, n. 1. Formerly, Abyssinia. a republic in E Africa: formerly a monarchy. 58,732,577; 409,266 sq. mi. (1,060,000 sq. km). Present boundaries include Eritrea. Cap.: Addis Ababa. 2. Also called Abyssinia. an ancient region in NE …
126Megadrought — A megadrought (or mega drought) is a prolonged drought lasting two decades or longer. Past megadroughts have been associated with persistent multiyear La Niña conditions (cooler than normal water temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific… …
127Classic Maya collapse — Maya civiliza …
128Shared vision planning — was developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the National Drought Study [http://www.svp.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndspage.htm] (1989 1993). Shared vision planning has three basic elements: (1) an updated version of the systems approach to… …
